An Evening with Madeline Miller and Emily Wilson

Frances A. McAnaney Humanities Lecture presents
An Evening with Madeline Miller and Emily Wilson

Join us for an evening of conversation with best-selling author Madeline Miller, author of Circe and Song of Achilles, and Emily Wilson, the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey.

Best-selling author Madeline Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. She has taught and tutored Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students for more than 15 years. She has also studied at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms.
 
The Song of Achilles, Miller's first novel, was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a New York Times bestseller. It has been translated into over 25 languages. Miller's essays have appeared in a number of publications including the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Lapham’s Quarterly and NPR.org.
 
Her second novel, Circe, was an instant No. 1 New York Times bestseller. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man’s world.

 
Emily Wilson is a British American classicist, author, translator, and professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. In 2018, she became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey. Her translation of the Iliad was released in September 2023. 
 
Wilson attended Oxford University—Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature—and Yale University, earning a PhD in Classics and Comparative Literature. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Philadelphia with her family and pets.

This is a ticketed event.

Saint Mary's College students with ID can attend at no charge. Special discounts are also available for area educators and their students; contact hust@saintmarys.edu for more information. Tickets for this event will be available in early December. 

About the Francis A. McAnaney Humanities Lecture
Miller and Wilson's visit is part of the Francis A. McAnaney Humanities Lecture, previously known as the Christian Culture Lecture. This lecture series has welcomed remarkable writers, historians, philosophers, and theologians to campus for more than 15 years. The Francis A. McAnaney Humanities Lecture has been endowed by a gift from the Peter B. and Adeline W. Ruffin Foundation. This continues a lecture series revived by Donald and Susan Rice ’61 in 2006 in memory of Bruno P. Schlesinger.